Histories

In this sandy desert are ants,[*](It is suggested that the “ants” may have been really marmots. But even this does not seem to make the story much more probable.) not as big as dogs but bigger than foxes; the Persian king has some of these, which have been caught there. These ants live underground, digging out the sand in the same way as the ants in Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeGreece, to which they are very similar in shape, and the sand which they carry from the holes is full of gold.